Family Fallout Shelter

During the cold war there was a great fear of getting into a full on war with Russia. Even though it never escalated to that point men and women were expected to have certain roles. We could see some of the stereotypes and roles that the men were expected to have in the following primary sources.
In the poster “The Family Fallout Shelter” from This poster we could see a women holding a booklet of how to build a shelter while there is a men holding bricks and a seems to be making the shelter. From these picture we could assume that they believed that men were the ones that were supposed to do all of the hard work. We could assume that they believed that women were too week and they could not do hard labor like making a fallout shelter. We also see how the women was holding the manual of how to do it which could mean that men were primarily guided by the women. These could be moral guidance or actual guidance of how to do stuff () we could also assume that they expected the men to protect the family to take care of the family that might be why he is building the shelter. In the poster we see only one men so we could assume
Oran is interview because they had believed that she had an association with the communist party there is part where they mention of her occupation. She responds that she is a housewife and her husband works in a drugstore (642). These id proof that men were expected to be the bread winners of the family that was a big stereotype. In these source we could see that there are many members of congress asking Mrs. Oran to contribute with the government and to tell them everything that she knows about the communist party so they could stop the conspiracies (643). These shows that they expected the women to tell them everything wrong because they might have been believed to be the moral support of the family and also they expect both men and women to help their